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Posted by NRen2k5 on 09/04/05 11:03
On 9/3/2005 9:40:36 PM, red apple wrote:
>I have an inexpensive but decent portable music player that plays both
>mp3 and wma files.
>
>My understanding - from where I don't know - is that wma files are
>smaller than mp3 files (everything else held equal) and that they thus
>can fit more songs on a portable player than by using mp3. Correct?
>
>If that's correct, I am having a devil of a time converting my mp3 files
>to wma. I'd like something that would, free, do batch conversions from
>mp3 to wma. The several things I've tried don't even offer a wma
>option, and the help files say it's probably because I lack a wma codec.
>Yet I *do* have a few wma files on my compuer, and they play fine on the
>computer in wimamp, WMP, etc. So where do I find a decent, free, speedy
>batch conversion utility, and where do I get the necessary codec(s) to
>allow conversion to wma?
>
>Sorry, can't find this information on the web, even though I expect
>there will be at least 20 responses pointing me to the right place.
WMA isn't smaller than MP3. It just allows for some of the same settings at some lower bitrates. It doesn't really sound much better.
- NRen2k5
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